LeVar Burton Quotes

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

I really love visiting schools - in fact, that's my favorite part of being an author now - even though I still get stage fright! When I visit schools, I know I'm going to be talking to some kids who don't like to read.

Reading should be a repeat performance.

You can't write if you don't read.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.